Anniversarial — 2024
1674
Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2024:
Births
- Armstrong, Major-General John (born 1674–died 1742), Irish soldier, army officer, engineer, academician
- Ashe, Sir James, 2nd baronet (born 1674–died 1733), English gentleman, politician, member of Parliament
- Barbeyrac, Jean (born 1674–died 1744), French author, legal author
- Boulton, Richard (born 1674–died after 1724), English physician, medical author
- Boyle, Charles, 4th earl of Orrery (born 1674–died 1731), English aristocrat, army officer, academician, politician, member of Parliament
- Boyle, Richard, 2nd Viscount Shannon (born 1674–died 1740), Irish aristocrat
- Brydges, James, 1st duke of Chandos (born 1674–died 1744), English politician, member of Parliament, patron
- Cockburn, Catharine [née Trotter] (born 1674–died 1749), English author, playwright, philosopher
- Compton, Spencer, earl of Wilmington (born c. 1674–died 1743), English politician, member of Parliament
- Cracherode, Anthony (born c. 1674–died 1752), English lawyer, civil servant
- Curll, Edmund (born after 1674–died 1747), English bookseller, publisher
- Fazy, Clermonde [née Rousseau] (born 1674–died 1747), Swiss home-maker
- Fleetwood, John (born c. 1674–died 1725), English diplomat, merchant
- Guérin de Tencin, Marie Angélique, comtesse d’Argental (born 1674–died 1736), French aristocrat
- Harrison, Edward (born 1674–died 1732), English colonial governor
- Hort, Josiah, archbishop of Tuam (born c. 1674–died 1751), English churchman
- Jolyot de Crébillon, Prosper (born 1674–died 1762), French author, playwright, poet, academician
- Le Fèvre de Caumartin, Madeleine Charlotte Émilie, marquise de Balleroy (born 1674–died 1749), French aristocrat
- Lenglet Du Fresnoy, Nicolas (born 1674–died 1755), French author, historian, geographer, philosopher
- Lériget de La Faye, Jean François, marquis de La Faye (born 1674–died 1731), French stockbroker, diplomat, poet, art critic, collector, academician
- Manning, Francis (born 1674–died after 1738), English diplomat, poet
- Nash, Richard (born 1674–died 1761), English social celebrity
- Philippe II, duc d’Orléans (born 1674–died 1723), French aristocrat, regent
- Philips, Ambrose (born 1674–died 1749), English author, poet, playwright, army officer, private secretary
- Pyle, Reverend Thomas (born 1674–died 1756), English churchman, religious controversialist
- Rowe, Nicholas (born 1674–died 1718), English author, playwright, poet
- Ruddiman, Thomas (born 1674–died 1757), English scholar, classicist, academic, scholar, printer, librarian, archivist
- Sacheverell, Reverend Doctor Henry (born 1674–died 1724), English churchman, religious controversialist
- Stafford, Hugh (born 1674–died 1734), English gentleman
- Stratton, Peter (born 1674–died 1720), English mercer, landowner, tradesman
- Swift, Deane [the elder] (born 1674–died 1714), Irish gentleman
- Temple, John (born after 1674), English gentleman
- Townshend, Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend (born 1674–died 1738), English diplomat, agriculturalist
- Waring, Jane (born c. 1674–died 1720), Irish home-maker
Deaths
- Cavendish, Margaret, duchess of Newcastle [née Lucas] (born 1623–died 1674), English author, science-writer, intellectual
- Crooke, Andrew (born c. 1605–died 1674), English publisher
- Denny, Henry (born 1610–died after 1674), English apothecary
- Hyde, Edward, 1st earl of Clarendon (born 1609–died 1674), English politician, member of Parliament, historian
- Milton, John (born 1608–died 1674), English author, poet, polemicist, civil servant
- Sadler, John (born 1615–died 1674), English author, political theorist, reformer, university administrator
- Strachey, John (born 1634–died 1674), English gentleman, lawyer
- Temple, Sir Thomas, baronet (born 1614–died 1674), English colonial governor
- Ward, Isaiah (born c. 1629–died 1674), English physician
